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Heltec Wireless Stick

Development Board

Code name: heltec_wireless_stick

Heltec Wireless Stick is a development board based on the ESP32 microcontroller using XTENSA architecture.

This board features a maximum CPU frequency of 240 MHz and 8MB flash memory.

About Heltec Wireless Stick

Slim ESP32 board with LoRa support and USB-C - great for wearable or compact LoRa-based IoT builds.

Heltec Wireless Stick Technical Specifications

🛰️ Connectivity

WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n (2.4 GHz)
Bluetooth: 4.2
BLE: 4.2

🧠 Microcontroller

Model: esp32
Clock Speed: 240 MHz
Flash Size: 8MB
Architecture: xtensa

✨ Features

  • 40 digital IO pins
  • 16 external interrupt pins
  • 16 analog input pins
  • 19 PWM pins

Heltec Wireless Stick Pinout

Heltec Wireless Stick pinout

Heltec Wireless Stick Pin Mappings

Below you can find the Heltec Wireless Stick pinout. This development board provides 40 digital IO pins, out of which 16 can be used as external interrupt pins, 16 as analog input pins and 19 pins have Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM).

PinAnalogTouchPWMOther
0A11T1KEY_BUILTIN
1PWMTX
2A12T2PWM
3PWMRX
4A10T0PWMSDA_OLED
5PWMSCK
12A15T5PWM
13A14T4PWM
14A16T6PWMRST_LoRa
15A13T3PWMSCL_OLED
16PWMRST_OLED
18PWMSS
19PWMMISO
21PWMSDA Vext
22PWMSCL
25A18PWMLED_BUILTIN DAC1 LED
26A19PWMDAC2 DIO0
27A17T7PWMMOSI
32A4T9PWM
33A5T8PWM
34A6DIO2
35A7DIO1
36A0
39A3
Analog Analog input pins
Touch Touch pins
PWM Pulse-Width Modulation
RX / TX Receive/Transmit
LED_BUILTIN Built-in LED
Function Other functions

Default Tools for Heltec Wireless Stick

Bootloader toolesptool_py
Uploader toolesptool_py
Network uploader toolesp_ota
Bootloader address0x1000
Flash modedio
Boot modedio
Maximum upload size
3264 Kb
(3342336 B)
Maximum data size
320 Kb
(327680 B)

The Heltec Wireless Stick development board by default uses esptool_py uploader tool, network uploader tool for Over-the-air (OTA) uploads and esptool_py bootloader tool. The bootloader starts at address "0x1000". Flash mode and boot mode for Heltec Wireless Stick development board by default is dio and dio respectively.